Northern District (San Francisco)
Career Highlights: Retired October 2019; Appointed U.S. magistrate judge on April 4, 1998; Chief of Special Litigation, San Francisco city attorney's office, 1996-98; administrative law judge, California Department of Insurance, 1991-1996; attorney, Turner & Brorby, 1983-1991; clerk, U.S. District Judge Marilyn H. Patel, 1983
Law School: Yale Law School
JAMS
Career Highlights: Retired October 2019; Appointed U.S. magistrate judge on April 4, 1998; Chief of Special Litigation, San Francisco city attorney's office, 1996-98; administrative law judge, California Department of Insurance, 1991-1996; attorney, Turner & Brorby, 1983-1991; clerk, U.S. District Judge Marilyn H. Patel, 1983
Law School: Yale Law School
JAMS
By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte's legal career - which included stints in government and private practice before she took the bench - has a certain symmetry to it.
Before going to law school, she worked on insurance policy at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. Years later, she took a job at the California Department of Insurance as an administrative law judge, where she decided an import... (continued)
